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Corcovado Foundation Restores 4,000 Trees in Costa Rica’s Rainforests

Corcovado Foundation is a non-profit organization in Costa Rica striving for community development that is equitable, fair, and in harmony with nature. Since 1998, the Corcovado Foundation has used engagement, education, and capacity-building relationships to involve local communities (primarily, rural, underprivileged, and underserved) to empower them to act as stewards of their natural environment, promoting leadership and innovation that then increases economic and environmental resilience.

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Providing Education Through Remote Internet Hubs

Around 258 million, or one in five children worldwide are out of school according to a 2018 UNESCO report. The impacts of a life with little to no education are far-reaching and affect everything from nutrition to future employability. As low-income youth race toward a future of increased social stratification, access to education has never been more critically important to breaking the cycle of poverty.

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Advancing LGBTI Rights on a Global Level

Across the globe, members of the LGBTI community continue to experience discrimination and numerous forms of abuse. While there has been substantial progress in the social acceptance of this diverse group over the last decade, a long path remains for public policy to actualize LGBTI equity, inclusion, and equal rights. For 30 years, OutRight Action International, an advocacy organization headquartered in New York, has countered attacks on free expression using the world’s biggest and most diverse forum—the United Nations.

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Living Oceans Society Creates a Sea Change in British Columbia

The consequences of unsustainable global economic growth manifest in countless ways, one of the most obvious being the endless amount of solid waste littering our landscapes and washing up on our shores. In the case of a small village on the central coast of British Columbia in Canada, a community is thinking globally through its local actions and having an outsized impact through its example.

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Unpacking the CRA’s New Tools for Granting to Non-Qualified Donees

On December 19, 2023 the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) released its long-awaited final guidance on registered charities making grants to non-qualified donees. These updates were covered in an April 10, 2024 session hosted by CAF Canada’s Jessie Krafft and Miller Thomson LLP’s Robert Hayhoe. During the webinar they compared the newly defined tools with the existing own activities modeland discussed how this affects a risk-based approach to international charitable funding.

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